Dating and recovery

These emotions can distract you from the work of changing your behaviors and your coping mechanisms and can put you at risk of relapse if you experience rejection or abandonment.

Personal reflection and self-analysis is an important step to knowing ourselves and learning to accept and love ourselves.

Our work to understand ourselves can be undermined or become convoluted if our efforts are distracted by a budding romance.

It also becomes very difficult to sort out what are my issues to work on and what are someone else’s.

You can truly only love someone to the extent that you love yourself.

Building a support network is part of recovery, and it may seem like the strongest support you could possibly have is by forming a partnership with someone who has the same goals.

But there is a lot to learn about living life sober, and jumping into a new relationship can distract you from learning this new way of life.Rehab is a time in which you are learning to cope with the ups and downs of life without turning to substances.It may also be a time in which any new relationships you form can have an impact on your recovery.New romances are not only distracting they can quickly become all-consuming.They may initially feel great, but it doesn’t take long before we find ourselves slipping into old patterns, habits and behaviors.If you are compelled to continually be in a relationship and are always falling head over heels over someone new, you may have a problem with love addiction.